Norman Thelwell Author & Illustrator

Norman Thelwell was born in Birkenhead in 1923. War service involved foot-slogging with the East Yorkshires and art editing an army magazine in India. He studied art at Liverpool, taught it for seven years in Wolverhampton then became a full-time cartoonist and a household name soon afterwards. For many years he lived with his wife and children in a Hampshire cottage within fly-casting distance of the River Test. Norman Thelwell died in 2004.